or telling me where he was going or what time he would be back. This time I didn’t allow it to disturb me. If anything I was glad of the peace and quiet.

I eventually got a phone call from the doctor asking me to go and collect more medicine and that my test results had come back saying I had a nasty infection in my cervix, but it was nothing to worry about and some antibiotics would clear it up straight away. I had recovered somewhat so was able to make the journey to the hospital on my own and collected my results. I didn’t think anything of the test results, but it was the prescriptions that really made me confused. As I opened the boxes of various medicines, I took out the leaflets of instructions and pondered over them with intrigue and was shocked to see they were for sexually transmitted diseases.